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When it comes to housing policy, the Conservative MPs have given their party a choice between Tweedle Dum and Tweedle DumDum. Rishi...

House price growth may be slowing but there is still plenty of movement in the property jobs market. Here are some of...

MPs have called for carbon emissions to be considered when it comes to house building. A report released this week by the Environmental Audit...

In retrospect, it was perhaps inevitable that the infamous dead cat would come into the debate over government housing targets and...

Planning delays, labour shortages and the surging price of building materials are combining to sharply cut the number of new homes...

As we slide into Christmas, with the busiest levels of house buying since 2006 and activity still buoyant, I don’t think...

The last 18 months have been full of ups and downs, but the property market has coped remarkably well during the...

Propertymark has criticised the government over poor house building figures. New figures from the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities show...

We’ve probably all learned to be a little less cynical about politicians in recent weeks, given the tragic events. We perhaps...

Few political policies have such a ring of the past as rent controls - they were last seen in this country...

At first sight it’s a tough ask to defend holiday homes when there’s evidence that many who want to buy can’t,...

A consultation into the draft New Homes Quality Code has been published with a consultation period for the industry ending on...

Local elections rarely set the pulse racing and this year’s poll on Thursday faces a similar problem. But this time, it’s a...

For many, the funeral of HRH Prince Philip will be a solemn affair, while for some it will also be a...

The MP leading a new parliamentary committee on the housing market says a radical reform of tax would help more people move...

A new body which says it will “champion better outcomes for buyers” is described as independent but is to be chaired...

The government needs to step in to rescue two valuable property incentives before they expire at the end of March, a...

Covid-19 has caused the number of new homes registered by UK house builders to fall 23 per cent in 2020. The NHBC...

A large majority of property professionals polled by the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors say a stamp duty holiday would be...

The Bank of England’s monetary policy committee meets today for its monthly decision on whether the move base rate - and...

In the firmest sign yet that PropTech has entered the mainstream, Housing Minister Esther McVey recently launched an expert advisory council...

It’s a substantial Tory government for the next five years: what does this mean for estate agents, property and the market? We have...

Pressure is building on the Conservative party to honour its previous commitment to reform stamp duty for British buyers and sellers...

Labour is pledging a “housing revolution” with the biggest council house building programme for decades Its manifesto being launched today will include new...

Hello, we hope you had a good weekend, and welcome to Monday - as ever, Property Jobs Today time, bringing you...

Housing Minister Esther McVey has launched an expert advisory council that the government says is “dedicated to the digital transformation of...

A former 10 Downing Street adviser says stamp duty on house sales should be scrapped or at least slashed in order...

New figures released this morning by the National House Building Council show the number of new homes registered to be built...

A briefing note for MPs prepared from government statistics shows that housing starts and completions have increased from the lows observed...

One of the country’s most respected agents has advised the agency industry to treat Boris Johnson’s pledges with real caution. Black Brick buying...

The Nationwide building society is to go into house building. It has received planning permission to build 239 new homes for sale...

With this summer marking forty years since Margaret Thatcher came to power, her legacy continues to invoke both celebration and consternation...

The latest report commissioned by the Labour party to resolve the UK’s housing problems would crash the housing market rather than...

While media attention has been on Theresa May, Brexit and the Tories, chatter in the agency industry has been about what...

No, this isn’t about Brexit. But as the saga of leaving the EU is likely to bring about the downfall of...

Campaigning groups like Generation Rent and Shelter like to think they are simultaneously edgy and radical; likewise some think tanks believe...

Estate agents have responded cynically to the small-fry property sector announcements made by Chancellor Phillip Hammond in yesterday’s spring statement mini-Budget. Overshadowed...

The housing minister has made it clear that his government - and the property industry as a whole - must deliver...

The Guardian is this morning reporting that “a major estate agent” has been accused of involvement in corruption with the house...

We’ve all heard the comments - the countryside is being covered in concrete, new houses are springing up everywhere, our green...

It may not be a good idea for a journalist to be personal about a politician, so I write about our...

James Brokenshire - yesterday appointed Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government - joins the rank of senior politicians...

Estate agency Jackson-Stops says it has discovered precisely how many existing home owners understand the difficulties facing first time buyers in...

An estate agent and former chairman of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors says the government’s latest drive to build new...

The latest release of data from the English Housing Survey reveals that the number of under-45s owning their own homes has...

This week, news broke of the ‘first bitcoin homes’ being sold in the UK by Go Move, an estate agency in...

Housing may have taken centre stage in the Budget but most of the industry appears to remain sceptical of whether the...

Another Budget, another pledge of new house building: it appears from statements made over the weekend by Chancellor Phillip Hammond that...

New figures out this morning show that house builders registered nearly 38,000 new homes in the UK during the third quarter...

It has been revealed that the beleaguered government of Theresa May is to hold a summit at 10 Downing Street tomorrow...

Labour’s shadow housing minister John Healey is reported to be one of a number of prominent front bench opposition spokespeople being...

The government says the number of new build homes that have started to be built has surged to the highest level...

A regional estate agency has urged the Government and the new housing minister to implement the policies outlined in the housing...

Home ownership has halved for young families across some parts of the UK according to a charity.  The Resolution Foundation says its...

The Conservatives have this morning announced a reform of the house buying process in the party’s manifesto for the June 8...

Since the seventies, housing starts and completions across England and Wales have been on a downward trajectory. The long run average...

I wrote last month about how the Government, in introducing a 3% stamp duty surcharge on second homes, had scored an...

The Competition and Markets Authority is to review the operation of new home structural warranties issued by the National House Building...

Jeremy Leaf, the London estate agent and former RICS residential chairman, is the latest industry figure to call for the government...

If you work in lettings, I’ll already have a pretty good idea on how you feel about the current Conservative Government.  The...

The chronic shortage of housing supply in the UK relative to demand has been a national issue for decades. The Government...

The government has set out 29 key points in its Housing White Paper.   Introducing it in the Commons this afternoon, Communities Secretery Sajid...

A series of leaks to national newspapers and a flurry of broadcast interviews by housing minister Gavin Barwell means we already know...

There's bad news for the government in the form of house building targets on the eve of its long-awaited Housing White...

Now I’m not one to lose sleep over politicians, but it strikes me that Communities Secretary Sajid Javid and Housing Minister...

If you provide a service, you expect to be paid for it. Sound fair? But with the forthcoming ban on tenant...

House prices will stall in 2017 and there won’t by any significant improvement in affordability for many hard-pressed buyers - but...

We are now less than a month away from Philip Hammond’s first Autumn Statement to the nation, depending of course on...

Some of this week’s headlines - ‘Firms must list foreign workers’ and ‘NHS to no longer rely on foreign doctors’ -...

There has been widespread scepticism from many within the industry that the government will miss its latest house building targets, despite...

The government has signalled that it is going to publish a housing White Paper later this year with “significant measures” to...

With the number of new homes being built across the UK still significantly below the level needed to meet demand, housebuilders...

A National Association of Estate Agents report has been roundly dismissed as being “out of date and unhelpful” in blaming a...

Shelter - recently concentrating on attacking landlords for the qualities of their homes and letting agents for the size of their...

The Tory Reform Group has launched a public call for evidence seeking “innovative policy proposals to address the two-fold challenge of...

A housing body says that, rather than presiding over a worsening housing crisis as many suggest, David Cameron has actually left...

Older readers may recall a terrific movie called Network where a character, disillusioned by life, shouts from a window: “I’m as...

House price falls triggered by weaker economic growth and a drop in economic confidence following the EU referendum may not actually...

The National Association of Estate Agents says it is unlikely that there will be price drops for homes in the very...

Never in my lifetime have I seen so much enthusiasm and passion for politics. Brexit awoke the sleeping dog in almost...

Property software supplier VTUK is the latest to warn that a Brexit could have a damaging effect on the supply of...

Access to labour is a continuing problem for the construction industry and may worsen if Britain leaves the European Union, according...

The National Association of Estate Agents and Association of Residential Letting Agents say that although there are no conclusive ‘leave’ or...

The influential Home Owners’ Alliance pressure group says Britain pulling out of the EU would probably depress house prices. The HOA - a...

When it comes to Budgets and Property, you have to hope that the old adage that ‘things happen in threes’ turns...

As we all know, Peter Redfern is critical to the future of the British housing market and.... What? Wait? You don’t know...

A suggestion that up to 50 per cent of new homes built in London should be affordable has come in for...

In an unexpected announcement, the government says it will "directly commission" companies to build up to 13,000 new affordable homes on...

The National Association of Estate Agents has given a cautious welcome to new government plans to expand shared ownership.  David Cameron has...

George Osborne has announced a shock additional 3.0 per cent stamp duty on second homes and buy to let properties. Details are...

It’s been revealed that the National Home Building Council has been helping the National Association of Estate Agents with a toolkit...

Scotland’s home building industry says at least 100,000 homes of all tenures are needed by the end of the next Scottish...

An estate agency analyst has queried whether the £2 billion spent on the equity loan Help To Buy scheme in England...

The new shadow housing minister says Labour will build 100,000 new council houses and housing association homes a year with more...

One of the candidates for the deputy leadership of the Labour Party says she wants pensioners to invest in bonds which...

Average house prices across the UK increased by 0.3 per cent in August but the annual pace of house price growth...

Communities Secretary Greg Clark will be sacked if there is no improvement in the number of homes built in the next...

The imbalance of supply and demand in the housing market “will lead to even stronger price gains over the next 12...

Estate agents have given an enthusiastic endorsement to Chancellor George Osborne’s proposals to help boost housing building totals through changes to...

Registrations for new private homes rose 17 per cent in the three months to the end of May when compared to...

The government claims that over 36,000 new home owners have been created through Right to Buy since 2012. Figures released by the...

When do we really start to worry about rising rents and house prices? Despite an apparent slowdown in house price inflation...

A survey conducted on behalf of Rightmove comes out with predictable results - the two biggest problems facing would-be buyers are...